Monday, October 20, 2008

Ontogeny recapitulated phylogeny in punk hardcore, deconstructive music that attempted to discover the starting point of music by reducing it to as few principles as possible, flourishing in Discharge with sonic leveling constructed from a few chords in a modal strip, rearranged around combatant opposite rhythms, defining an archetypal punk sound and through its independence from rhythm establishing the technique that would allow death metal and black metal bands to create interlocking riffs independent of percussion.